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08 August 2025
Issue: 8128 / Categories: Case law , In Court , Law digest
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Law digests: 8 August 2025

Company

Kicks and another v MLS-Multinational Logistics Services Ltd [2025] EWHC 1958 (Ch)

The Chancery Division approved a distribution plan under the Payment and Electronic Money Institution Insolvency Regulations 2021 in the special administration of Rational Foreign Exchange Ltd. The court granted declaratory relief concerning the legal status of various business models and methods used by the company to service EU-domiciled customers post-Brexit. It held that, notwithstanding regulatory breaches, funds received from certain EU customers should be treated as relevant funds and returned accordingly. The court dismissed the application by the intervener, Multinational Logistic Services Ltd, for declarations that its deposited funds were safeguarded relevant funds held by the company, finding that MLS had contracted with Rational FX EU, not the company.


Financial remedy

BC v BC [2025] EWHC 2016 (Fam)

The Family Division ruled on the confidentiality of the private Financial Dispute Resolution (pFDR) process in contested financial remedy proceedings. The issue was whether the husband (respondent) was entitled to refer to events which took place at

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Arc Pensions Law—Matthew Swynnerton

Arc Pensions Law—Matthew Swynnerton

Chair of the Association of Pension Lawyers joins as partner

Ampa Group—Kamal Chauhan

Ampa Group—Kamal Chauhan

Group names Shakespeare Martineau partner head of Sheffield office

Blake Morgan—four promotions

Blake Morgan—four promotions

Four legal directors promoted to partner across UK offices

NEWS

The abolition of assured shorthold tenancies and section 21 evictions marks the beginning of a ‘brave new world’ for England’s rental sector, writes Daniel Bacon of Seddons GSC

Stephen Gold’s latest Civil Way column rounds up a flurry of procedural and regulatory changes reshaping housing, alternative dispute resolution (ADR) and personal injury litigation
Patients are being systematically failed by an NHS complaints regime that is opaque, poorly enforced and often stacked against them, argues Charles Davey of The Barrister Group
A wealthy Russian divorce battle has produced a sharp warning about trying to challenge foreign nuptial agreements in the wrong English court. Writing in NLJ this week, Vanessa Friend and Robert Jackson of Hodge Jones & Allen examine Timokhin v Timokhina, where the High Court enforced Russian judgments arising from a prenuptial agreement despite arguments based on the landmark Radmacher decision
An obscure Victorian tort may be heading for an unexpected revival after a significant Privy Council ruling that could reshape liability for dangerous escapes, according to Richard Buckley, barrister and emeritus professor of law at the University of Reading
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